What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manager II, Machine Learning Engineering, Monetization position at Jobright.ai?
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Job Summary:
Pinterest is a platform that inspires creativity and helps users plan memorable experiences. As a Manager II in Machine Learning Engineering, you will lead a team of Machine Learning Engineers to develop and enhance ad products, focusing on improving engagement, relevance, and performance through advanced machine learning techniques.
Responsibilities:
• Lead and scale a high-impact team of Machine Learning Engineers by setting technical vision, developing a long-term roadmap, and fostering a strong team culture
• Design and deploy large-scale ML models to improve engagement prediction, ads retrieval, ranking efficiency, and/or overall marketplace performance
• Partner closely with cross-functional teams (including product, sales, data science, and engineering) to develop next-generation ad experiences that improve conversion, relevance, and value for both Pinners and advertisers
• Contribute to the evolution of our ads stack by advancing ranking models, retrieval candidate generation, signal development, and bidding/marketplace algorithms
• Drive end-to-end development of pinner-facing ad products, ensuring both system scalability and measurable business impact
• Uphold high standards for engineering excellence through strong code quality, scalable system design, and operational best practices
• Stay informed of emerging ML research and industry developments; evaluate and integrate emerging techniques to keep our systems state-of-the-art
• Recruit, mentor, and retain top ML talent while providing hands-on guidance, clear technical direction, and continuous professional development opportunities
Qualifications:
Required:
• M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field
• 6 years of industry experience in building production machine learning systems at scale, data mining, search, recommendations, with related background in recommender systems, ranking/retrieval or representation learning domains
• 1-2 years of experience as a TLM or EM managing engineering teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and strong strategic thinking and cross-functional collaboration
• Strong software engineering and mathematical and analytical skills
• Hands-on experience with large-scale online ranking/recommendation systems.
Preferred:
• Experience with Ads domain is a plus.
Company:
Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas. Founded in 2010, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Public Company.
